Re: [hylafax-users] hfaxd in inetd

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

At 11:23 AM 9/7/01 +0700, Denis A Ustimenko wrote:
>Hi there!
>
>I am using hylafax 4.1 + solaris 2.6. Now I trying to start hfaxd via
>inetd:
>--------
>/etc/inetd.conf:
>hylafax stream  tcp     nowait  fax     /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd   hfaxd
>--------
>
>Such config gives me an error "Login failed: 550 Cannot set privileges."
>when i try faxstat.
>
>-------
>hylafax stream  tcp     nowait root     /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd   hfaxd
>-------
>
>Works fine but I don't like it.
>
>Seems like fax user need a bit more privileges. But what?

hfaxd must be run as root to do the file manipulation that it needs to
enforce access permissions on the queue.  I think...

Lee.



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